Yup. I definitely ding off points for it when I do my mental restroom reviews.

It’s a pretty common problem, honestly.

Fair enough. It looks like pulque, at least, was recorded as not being used recreationally, which is probably what I was remembering, but even that I doubt, just based on human nature.

It’s still highly unlikely Alpharabius ever discussed political philosophy over a beer. There might have been local Jews that could supply it, but the cultural taboo would have long since been totally integrated. It wasn’t ye olde prohibition or something. And it’s still not supported that drinking is objectively, universally desirable in some aesthetic sense, which is kind of what “it is cool” suggests in the original context.

Human sacrifice was also pretty popular for a pretty long time, as was autocracy. Alcohol isn’t that bad, obviously, if bad at all, but age isn’t a good argument on it’s own.

Also; factually inaccurate. I’m not sure how much evidence of alcohol there is in the New World civilisations, and Islam, which forbids it, has been around for a millennia and a half.

At least in North America. I get the sense Europe still thinks drinking is cool across the board.

Ah, but it’s a very old pool of toxin, cooked over rotten plant matter from a swamp and aged in an obsolete form of container, and it made them significantly poorer to order it! /s

I like this interpretation of history. I guess that means the Wright brothers were drinking Red Bull?

More seriously, they drank milk because they were pastoralists with a lot of it, and because it’s something you can consume. Hell, they were even lactose intolerant; if you happen to be European or West African all the better. Not sure where this “it’s for kids” idea comes from, maybe it’s some kind of American cultural thing. (If you want to be really bio-deterministic, it’s for babies, older children are in the same group as adults)

And yet, the Mongols conquered Eurasia on it.

Yeah, I really wonder who writes these, and what their outlook on their job is. They have to know that the content has some pretty strong omissions or false inclusions there for political reasons.

I wonder what the stats in Canada look like now.

someone found added value in designing and building a shit foot massage machine,

I bet they didn’t. Someone screwed up, and someone (maybe not the same person) is taking a loss on it. Chinese factory labour is cheap, but not free.

It’s still a bummer, though. Sorry this happened.

We have private ones too, to be clear. And the CBC doesn’t actually take orders on what to run.

Is there a word for articles of this type? There’s all kinds of shitty how-to websites like this. For a while I was finding a ton that were obviously AI generated, too.

In Canada, we have a state broadcaster, which is nice. The current election frontrunner, according to the polls, is a guy who’s made it his entire life’s quest to get rid of it. Sigh.

There was, like, a golden age in the early 10’s before popups and animations everywhere, and after popups and animations everywhere.

It’s possible I’m just nostalgic. If it sucked some way I’m not remembering I’m very interested to hear about it.

Nope, it’s still rule 1 on .ml specifically. Or are you accusing me of bigotry out of the blue? That would be ironic in this context.

… That’s exactly what I said. Or, at least, what I tried to say.

Some of it is actual bigotry, because this is still the internet, but if they just want to shut someone up it’s also “rule 1”.

It’s literally one of, if not the, original community, and it’s the one maintained by Lemmy’s developers. It’s probably smaller than .world, but dwarfs my instance.

Yeah, both can be true. There’s no way they’re close checking every comment on the instance, looking at the rate of mod actions versus traffic.

Head over to lemmy.ml and scroll to the mod log link at the bottom if you want to see for yourself. A lot of it is just slightly different views on the same socialist stuff. Like the time I said Dengism was just thinly-veiled capitalism, and got banned.

Nope, it was a two-week ban in the .ml mod log, both times.

I should look at the source code a bit, see how bans are supposed to work. It could be a federation issue of some kind if I’m supposed to be notified.